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This study reconsiders the plot structure of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot through a digital humanities approach. While previous criticism has largely emphasized the play’s circularity, repetition, closure, and stasis, close readings have also identified gradual degeneration and disintegration between Acts I and II. This study focuses on the tension between these macro- and micro-level interpretations and asks whether the play’s repetitions merely return to the same state or accumulate into a directional pattern. To address this question, the study analyzes patterns of speech and silence, speaker-transition networks, and structural correspondences between the two acts. The results reveal a general contraction of linguistic and relational patterns in Act II, accompanied by more frequent silence and a decline in dramatic energy. These findings suggest that the play’s repetition is not entirely static or closed but moves toward the gradual exhaustion of linguistic, relational, and dramatic possibilities. Drawing briefly on Gilles Deleuze’s concept of exhaustion, the study argues that the play’s circular form coexists with a downward, irreversible directionality. Digital humanities methods thus connect dispersed local variations with the larger structure of the play, allowing its plot to be reconsidered as repetition with direction rather than simple recurrence.

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I. 서론
II. 희곡 문학의 디지털 인문학적 분석 양상
III. 연구방법
1. 연구 설계
2. 연구 자료 및 데이터 구축
3. 미시적 분석: 침묵과 발화의 분포
4. 중간적 분석: 화자 발화 전환 네트워크
5. 거시적 분석: 두 막의 구조적 대응
6. 분석 환경
IV. 분석 결과
1. 막별 화자의 발화 양상
2. 인물별 주요 빈도어와 어휘적 특징
3. 침묵 빈도 분석
4. 막별 발화 전환 네트워크
5. 막 간 구조적 대응
V. 종합 해석
VI. 결론
Works Cited
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저자

• 이혜경 [ Lee, Hyekyung | 한남대학교 ] 제1저자
• 김유진 [ Kim, Yujin | 한남대학교 ] 교신저자

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810